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Responding to Labour’s proposal for an extension to the evictions ban, and for renters to be given two years to pay back rent arrears, Amina Gichinga from the London Renters Union said this did not go far enough and rents had to be suspended altogether to protect renters:
Deferring rent just means renters will get into enormous debts – or be made homeless. Unemployment is going to rocket and we are not going to be able to afford a massive hike in our rent over two years.
We need rents to be suspended during this crisis, and the evictions ban needs to be permanent, so no one else is made homeless because of the pandemic.
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